I mean, that’s fair enough, I understand your viewpoint, although I think there’s nuance and context that precludes me from making it an all or nothing thing. It definitely can involve trying to improve your own sense of worth. It can also simply be entertaining is it can often involve being creative (eg satire).… Read more
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Counterpoint: being brave enough to expose yourself to criticism (and I agree, it takes bravery) doesn’t (and shouldn’t) make you ineligible for criticism? Read more
Thants.
Kangol has really cornered the market on putting hats on people who have a certain impression of themselves that others may not share.
Only because you asked, I’ve worked on over 5 AAA multi-platform console games as a C++ programmer and over 15 console games in total over a span of nearly 20 years. Read more
Highly doubt he’s a coder. A technical artist by most measures, which can involve some higher level scripting/programming. His job description is Facial Capture Artist. If I may award myself some authority on the matter, I work in games as a programmer along side inhouse capture studios that do this work with similar… Read more
“i think it’s just dumb people thinking being contrarian is actually being smart” Read more
wasn’t grey
to be this stunningly stupid is an achievement, in a way
How about just expecting people to behave with a sense of personal responsibility and respect for human life Read more
It’s not an either/or, it’s an quantitative amount. Read more
Political affiliation is not genetic, and to a degree that makes what you’re trying to suggest moot in practice, neither is intelligence. Read more
Let’s see what’s reigning at the box office - oh, Fast and Furious nine
“If they’re going out of their way to specifically and publicly deny it, it probably has a ring of truth.” Read more
I like that reminder feature because I leave my salami and jars of brains in the back all the fucking time.
and we loves you for it
It drives engagement. It’s good for the car makers, it’s good for Jalopnik. The dynamic would be much different if people were paying a subscription for this stuff. See how Consumers Reports reviews things. That’s because people pay for it, and therefore they’re not burdened to generate content that makes readers stay… Read more
If you’re reading a car review where the reviewer doesn’t care but acknowledges other people care, and thinking “Hey, this person is shitting on me!” you may have a problem with taking non personal things quite personally. Read more
It’s actually one of the most difficult things about reading this website and working as a AAA game programmer, the amount of times I wish I could correct people about platform technologies, often things not released yet, but would involve breaking NDAs .... keeping secrets is no fun at all, doubly so when people are… Read more
The bed probably detached almost immediately. Lateral force like that is probably not a force you really expect to design against (hell, it’s probably safer if it *does* come off with a significant but not too significant enough force)